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A journalist lives a well-established civil life, married to a woman from a respectable family. However, conflicts with his boss at work become frequent, his marriage is on the wane, and the outward manifestation of everything is a strange skin disease. Doctors recommend that he take a vacation in nature and reexamine himself. In the mountains, in a lonely house by a lake, he meets a woman, also lonely and maladjusted. The consequences of this meeting are beneficial…Read More »
On a New Year’s Eve, an aged man who filed a lawsuit against himself gets an unexpected visit by his sexy neighbor, a half-naked lady that had to face the power-cut in the middle of her shower.Read More »
A WW2 love story between a village girl and a partisan. A personal views on war are seen through the eyes of the two above, the local photographer, and German officer.Read More »
The war has ended leaving a deep trace in people. Going trough a different conflicts in the first days of peace – dealing with a former enemy’s collaborators and executing traitors – a former soldier continues with killing even in peace.Read More »
A fisherman saves Anada, a woman adrift, from drowning. He takes her to his home, and protects her. Eventually, she occupies a larger place than was to be expected. He commits adultery with her, but his own wife seems to be in love with the strange young woman.Read More »
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Funeral Feast, the film with the unforgettable masterfully-edited seven-minute shoot-out in the Tivoli park, takes place in the spring of 1941, when the war engulfs the lives of the Ljubljana youth as well. The affairs of the heart result in a liaison with an enemy officer, while the rebellion leads to organized resistance.
Like in the majority of Slovenian films, in Funeral Feast the actors from the other former Yugoslav republics were overdubbed by Slovenian actors: Boris Juh lent his voice to Rade Šerbedžija, Mojca Ribič to Snežana Nikšić, and Štefka Drolc to Milena Dravić.Read More »
Plot:
The film opens with a scene of Milena (Millie) running in a panic towards a wire fence. She slips through a hole in the fence and runs on. This is followed by a road-movie style odyssey of two young men, both trying to win Milena’s heart. The story reaches a peak by the sea, where Milena makes an attempt to subtly reveal which of the two young men she loves. She does this by building a sand castle on the beach, where the three of them can be alone, safe and free. Yet the police are close on their trail and the two young men must come to terms with a shocking realization…Read More »
A charming romantic comedy/drama from early 1960s Yugoslavia. Ranka (Milena Dravić) secretly follows her boyfriend Mikajlo (Ljubiša Samardžić) from the village to a work action. She is accepted despite not being signed up, but Mikajlo soon leaves his peasant brigade to follow the pretty student Nada in her student brigade. Mikajlo’s attempts to seduce Nada are met with laughter, and in the meantime Ranka becomes more independent. For her role, Milena Dravić won the “Golden Arena” for best female performance at the Pula Film Festival.Read More »
In June of 1942 Germans and their collaborators decide to get rid of partisans and their stronghold in the woods of Mount Kozara in Northern Bosnia. They encircle the mountain and begin the mop up operation. Out gunned and outnumbered the partisans must not only take care of themselves but try to protect thousands of refugees too.Read More »